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Job summary

Main area
Respiratory
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 8b
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Hours between 9-5, and may be some weekend work on rotation and unsocial hours)
Job ref
151-ALG41
Employer
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
King Edward VII Hospital / Farnham Community Hospital
Town
Windsor/ Farnham GU9 9QL
Salary
£60,983 - £70,536 pa inclusive of HCAS
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
03/05/2024 23:59

Employer heading

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust logo

Senior Matron Specialist Services

NHS AfC: Band 8b

Job overview

Be part of our award-winning teams, find your passion working in Respiratory Services.

A sensational opportunity has arisen to join the well-established, innovative, and dynamic Respiratory Services. We are on a journey expanding our successful teams to enhance the Acute Respiratory Virtual Ward and have secured new funding to increase our team.

We are looking for the best clinicians to join us in this demanding but enjoyable role which will provide you with a wide variety of experience and skills enhancing your professional portfolio. With dedicated support for your professional development there is every reason to join our expanding teams!

Main duties of the job

We are keen to hear from applicants with exceptional leadership, managerial and advanced clinical practice to this innovative role within the respiratory service. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to shape this role whilst being part of a senior leadership team, ensuring the organisational ambitions are delivered. The post holder will work closely with the clinical lead for the service ensuring consistent, person-centred care is provided. Professional and operational leadership is essential.

Working for our organisation

There’s never been a more exciting time to build your career at Frimley Health, one of the country’s largest and most respected trusts

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire. 

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other.

If you have a passion for clinical excellence, patient care and your own career development, you’ll feel at home at Frimley Health.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Virtual Ward is an exciting new service offering home based care to patients who would otherwise occupy a hospital bed. The care is delivered by a specialist workforce using face to face assessments and an integrated pathway to safely support patients in their own home. The developing Virtual Ward is looking at technology to assist with virtual assessment and monitoring to support the specialist in caring for people at home. We are looking for someone to provide a strong, visible, and effective advanced clinical presence for Nursing and AHP teams supporting the training and development of specialist and advanced practice. The post holder will ensure development of the virtual ward continues to deliver high standards, facilitating virtual ward care where appropriate and desired.

Operating closely with the clinical lead, the successful person will be based across Frimley Health facilitating the integration of teams within the respiratory service. Teams are currently based at King Edward VII Hospital, Windsor and Farnham Community Hospital, Farnham and rotate within the community and acute hospital sites – Wexham Park Hospital and Frimley Park Hospital. The role will be 3 days per week operational based at alternate community sites and 2 days per week clinical working at an advanced level at the acute site(s). The role requires flexibility in working patterns as the team is planned to cover a 7-day service.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Registered Nurse or AHP
  • Master's Degree in Advanced Practice
Desirable criteria
  • Leadership qualification

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Apprenticeships logoNo smoking policyMenopause Friendly EmployerCare quality commission - GoodArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardWe offer Wagestream - A financial wellbeing benefit which lets you access your pay as you earn it.Disability confident employer

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Joanne King
Job title
Respiratory Consultant Nurse
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07917093468
Additional information

Office number 0300 614 6796/6459